serial_crusher:Wouldn't it be great if all the insecure women in America had a famous brother who would stick up for them? Man, then nobody would have to accept any personal responsibility for anything.

She did a pretty good job sticking up for herself. This just brings more attention to it.

FishyFred:serial_crusher: Wouldn't it be great if all the insecure women in America had a famous brother who would stick up for them? Man, then nobody would have to accept any personal responsibility for anything.

She did a pretty good job sticking up for herself. This just brings more attention to it.

Not really. She waited for her husband to post about it on Facebook, then she took to the air to whine about how it hurt her precious feewings, and deflect personal responsibility for her problems. She even dismissed her diagnosis of obesity "according to some doctor's chart", as if said doctor isn't a credible expert on the topic.

I've read both the first and now the follow up letter and neither of which call her fat. Is he a pompous douche bag for sending her an email? Yes. Is he a bully? Not a farking chance. No where did he belitte her, berate, slander, or defame her. She has taken it much farther and said he has done things he didn't do. In fact, she kind of seems like the bully to me in this situation.

For someone as unhealthy as she appears, she certainly does have thin skin.

Meh. She ain't critical mass, yet but she's a couple of creme filled doughnut benders and a week of watching DVD box sets away from porcine. Sheesh, hon, just start walking a couple miles a day and lay off the Little Debbies.

There was no bullying that took place. I thought the letter she claimed was written by a "bully" was quite polite considering the subject. She over-reacted, because she's fat and doesn't want to go on a diet, and used a news broadcast as her personal soap box. Now her famous brother is stepping in to put an end to this non-existent bullying. Sorry someone you don't know had enough concern for your well being, and the younger viewers who MIGHT view her as a role model of sorts, to send you a letter hoping that you start making better life choices.

And I'm sorry you're such a fat cow that you can't see concerned criticism for what it is.

It's not like the dude wrote a letter to her full of "get some lip suction you disgusting sow, last time I saw something that large I was yankin on it's udders.." Get over it you overly sensitive manatee.

Oh good, another thread where posters that sound fat whine in support of unhealthy behavior, because being healthy involves other habits and skills beyond snapping fingers. Omitting the extreme few that by virtue of rare medical conditions or that are illiterate, christ. the stupid. It burns.

Icetech3:i 100% agree with the guy that wrote the letter to her... and in NO WAY was it bullying..

serial_crusher:FishyFred: serial_crusher: Wouldn't it be great if all the insecure women in America had a famous brother who would stick up for them? Man, then nobody would have to accept any personal responsibility for anything.

She did a pretty good job sticking up for herself. This just brings more attention to it.

Not really. She waited for her husband to post about it on Facebook, then she took to the air to whine about how it hurt her precious feewings, and deflect personal responsibility for her problems. She even dismissed her diagnosis of obesity "according to some doctor's chart", as if said doctor isn't a credible expert on the topic.

No part of that counts as a "pretty good job" imho.

Not to mention there was really no point in sticking up for herself in the first place. The guy wrote an email criticizing her looks--big deal. You don't like it, you ignore it. Or maybe you blast him back. What you DON'T do is use a national stage to publicly lambaste him, call him a bully, and trot out your private grievances for some cheap shots against someone you disagree with.

If anyone's the bully in that scenario, it's her. And this is coming from someone who grew up being bullied.

I believe you're right. I read the email in question this morning. While I do not see the point in writing it and it was in poor taste, it was well written and respectful in tone. It most assuredly not bullying. But labeling any criticism of their weight and/or lifestyle as bullying seems to be the new self-justification for obese people. TV news and other personalities get negative mail regularly. That this woman decided to go public with an email that should should have just clicked delete on proves that it stuck a chord she cannot acknowledge or she has an agenda. The erudite email may even be fake -- from her brother maybe?

I think I should write a letter to a little girl who lives in the neighborhood that is a little fat, because apparently she needs to know she is fat and making her aware that she is fat is actually doing her a favor, and is in no way a douchebag move. And has nothing to do with bullying. During anti-bullying month.

Anyone else think the only reason she has this job on television in the first place is because of her brother? I don't mean that fatties can't be talented enough to be on television, you just have to be extremely talented in an industry overcrowded with attractive people with skill sets ranging from zero(see soap opera) to phenomenal (A-listers). There's also the fact that as a country, we're pretty shallow and that translates to ratings.

Would've been more entertaining if she'd gone on the offensive: 'Hey, well you're bald, and deliberately risking skin cancer! Yet there's rogaine and toupees available - you're a bad example for our bald youth!... That debate might even get viewers.

/saw our local news guy in person once - a big head, tiny body so he looks like a lollipop//what I noticed first tho was that he was smoking like a chimney (outside their building)